The Friday Fling Fetes Feet Seuss-Style!
Friday Fling #180 May 11th 2012
We have always had a penchent for offering timely topics on the Friday Fling. This is one of many exceptions. We missed the anniversary of Dr. Seuss in March. But his style of writing is so fun it has been a favorite on the Fling.
So when Michelle suggested we do a Fling on feet, naturally I thought of Seuss. No I am not sure why either. But I did.
Seuss is of course noted for bizarre but cute and innocent stories which provide basic instruction in moral lessons much like fables of old. So that’s what we’re going for with this feet theme this week.
Why are feet important? What do you like about them? Most important, how do you use them? Stuff like that. Or just goofy stuff like this:
PETE’S FEET
Meet Pete.
Greet Pete.
Pete has two feet.
Pete thinks his feet are neat.
Pete soaks his feet in Cream of Wheat
before the Cream of Wheat Pete eats.
Pete thinks feet make Cream of Wheat more sweet,
so sweet that it cannot be beat.
But Jose says the heat of Pete’s feet
makes Cream of Wheat taste like sheet.
Sorry, I’m just quoting Jose.
Copyright May 7th 2012 RGD
This week the Friday Fling performs Seussish feats of poetry about feet!
Be sure to save time to read and tip your cat’s hat in your own inimitable way. Then do deploy and enjoy, but try not to annoy my boy Roy Malloy!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for May 4th
Congratulations Lori!
Welcome everyone to the Friday Fling’s Seuss-Style Fete to Feet! I hope you are ready to perform a Fine poetic writing, reading, and/or commenting Feat on Feet at this here meet! Never was it more true that we are here to Be Creative and Have Friggin’ Fabulous Friday Flingish Fun!
By Sonnet Diva! Thanks so much Lori and CONGRATS on the Friday Fling award! :love:
Pete’s Duck Feet
I’m wishing that I had Duck’s feet
Swim around for many hours
Though some may think I am off beat
Webbing helps give me the power
The Ducks feet would be such a treat
In the water I’d be complete
A powerful swimmer that’s sweet
Would not need shoes that would be neat
I’d be known as Pete with Duck Feet
Yet never would I show conceit
In all the lakes I would be found
With my Duck Feet swimming around
The Ducks feet would be such a treat
In the water I’d be complete
A powerful swimmer that’s sweet
Would not need shoes that would be neat
To find a duck if he would share
If duck’s feet I could realign
I would so love an extra pair
The slapping sound would be divine
The Ducks feet would be such a treat
In the water I’d be complete
A powerful swimmer that’s sweet
Would not need shoes that would be neat
Yet I can’t swim it’s just my luck
I could take lessons from a duck
Swimming ability’s amuck
With Duck’s feet would I have to cluck?
The Ducks feet would be such a treat
In the water I’d be complete
A powerful swimmer that’s sweet
Would not need shoes that would be neat
Sonnet Diva All rights reserved
LITTLE FEET
These feet are
Make for walkin
And you just made
My walk all over
This place
And um
Might tire now
Let rest
Written By Bettie Davis —————————– © May 1o , 2o12
This one I got all the way through writing before I realized I had somehow forgotten to include a reference to feet LOL It’s an effort to combine characters and styles of two of my favorite poets, Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. It was Shel who first came up with the Glump, and the last line of my poem is also the punchline of his.
The Glump
(with nods to Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein)
The Glump is a fearsomish creature
who hates every Seuss character
He is truly their bane
when they meet in a lane
the non-Glump will acquire a fracture.
Should the Glump see the cat in the hat,
he would swing him like a baseball bat,
hitting apples that fall from a tree
off a thigh of that cat, or a knee
till the cat passes out, just like that!
Now what do you think he’d do with Horton?
He’d soon cause a grimace and painful snortin’.
You would pity the Lorax
when the Glump pounds his thorax,
and the rest of his life he would shorten!
So you kids who like old Doctor Seuss
Should watch out when you’re next on the loose.
Especially when you’re in the dark
in a heavily forested park.
Protect both your front and caboose,
and remember, to avoid abuse,
Don’t bump the Glump.
This is the way I’d prefer to soak my feet – Scrooge style LOL
This is best that kin do wit this challenge … Hope likey … Hugs
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MY FEET
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Feet feet
Oh how the stink
Please rub my feet
Feet feet please
Rub my feet
Oh my ache y feet
Need to soak
These tire feet
Feet feet
Walkin here and there
Gittin no where fast
Round an round
Most times
In the same ole spot
C rushy on the bottom
Kinda smooth on top
These feet
My feet
Oh how they
Need sum rest
Rest easy feet only if they kin
Feet feet my feet
These feet are
Very much
Made for walkin
Yet too much walkin
Aint good for the weary
Feet feet please please stop
Walkin in my sleep
Feet feet please
Dont leave me now
The body
Needs to catch up
Feet feet
Oh swellin feet
Looks like
They gonna bush
Still walkin
Gittin no where fast
Round an round
They go
Where they stop
No one knows
Not even me
Same path
Over and over
Looks just like Ive been here before
Oh yeah just a minute ago
Feet feet
Oh how we
Do so need ‘ a rest
Written By: Bettie Davis ——————— © May 1o , 2o12
Feet To Feet
Feet neat
We have sweet feet
We have stinky feet
But, feet we need
Feet we meet
Ever play feet to feet
Toes to toes
Times nose to nose
For those feet meet
Then, we greet’
Head to toes
Feet to feet
May cause heat under the sheets
Let`s keep sweet
Happy Feet Everyone…oh I mean Happy Friday!!!!!!! :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
Hello Michelle and Bob…great fun blog…happy weekend! Great writes with thumbs up left for all…a quick one here, although not really Seussy… 😆 :love:
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Just beyond the sunset
Lies a home for me
Where the world is peaceful
Like a paradise should be
Just beyond the sunset
Someday is where you’ll find me
Just beyond the sunset
Waits someone so fair
Just beyond the sunset
All alone they wait there
Their hair is golden
The colour of the sand
Their eyes sparkle in the night
Like diamonds in your hand
Just beyond the sunset
Someone waits for me
Just beyond the sunset
Lies my destiny
Where the purple mountains
Lie in deep tranquillity
There I’ll find the treasure
Of love eternally
I’ve always loved Dr. Seuss. Wonderful blog and challenge and pieces posted. Happy Friday and Congratulations to Lori!
Such a lot of fun to try . . . .
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HAPPINESS ON TWO FEET
Oh the people you meet
and the great fun you’ll have
when you head out the door
and use your two feet.
They’ll take you wherever
you’d ever want to go
when you open the door wide
and just take a step outside.
One foot in front of the other
then two steps, then three.
It will be so much fun,
just you wait and see.
There’s no need to dress fancy
or to put on high heels;
barefoot will do just fine
depending on how you feel.
Just go as you are,
open the door
and step outside;
your feet will be happy
and you’ll be smiling inside.
Your feet will be ecstatic,
and jumping with glee,
running here
and running there
and running everywhere
for there’s just
so much to see.
So open the door
and explore what’s outside;
just a few steps to start
and you’ll certainly see
how happy you
and your two feet
can possibly be.
(c) barbara kausteklis 5-11-12
Fun indeed Barbara, and instructive for any ambulatory shutin
:love:
There’s no need to dress fancy
or to put on high heels;
barefoot will do just fine
if you feet are like seals’.
Because in the northeast
up until about June
if you go out in bare feet,
pneumonia may bloom.